Hull voters pick Zaia to fill redevelopment authority seat

Dennis Zaia won a seat on the Hull redevelopment authority in the lone contest in Monday's Hull town election. Zaia got 651 votes to Robert Cambra's 470 and Vernon Wood's 215.

Fred Hanson The Patriot Ledger @Fhanson_Ledger

HULL – Dennis Zaia won a seat on the redevelopment authority in the lone contest in Monday’s town election.

Voters also expressed a desire to have the school committee and the capital planning committee study consolidating students in two schools, which would free up the third school building for municipal use. the vote on the non-binding ballot question was 757 for and 463 against.

Town Clerk Janet Bennett said 1,370 of the town’s registered voters cast ballots in the election, for a voter turnout of a little less than 17 percent.

Zaia, a Beacon Road resident, topped the three-candidate redevelopment authority field with 651 votes. Placing second was Robert Cambra Sr. of G Street with 470 votes, followed by Vernon Wood of Sagamore Terrace with 215 votes.

Write-in candidate Harry Hibbard won a four-year term on the planning board with 66 votes. Jennifer Berardi-Constable, running unopposed, won a five-year term on the planning board.

Re-elected without opposition were Selectmen Kevin Richardson and Domenico Sestito.

Also winning new terms were Assessors Mario Peter Grieco and Pamela Sinton-Coffman, housing authority member Joseph Reilly, and light board members Patrick Cannon and Stephanie Landry.